The poor General Huang finally returned to the Jingzhou army in shame and led the defeated generals back to his camp with Chen. However, at this point, General Huang, who had lost all his face, won't say that he was competing with the Xuzhou army for the ownership of the Anhui County city, even if Deputy Director Tao's head was in the water, he decided to give up Anhui County temporarily. The little power in his hand could not be considered to break through Anhui County and kill people and seize food. So without the need for Deputy Director Tao to ask, General Huang chose to withdraw his camp and withdraw his troops, retreat thirty miles to get out of the camp, waiting for the choice of the chief general of the Jingzhou army Liu Pan.

While the Jingzhou army was pulling out the camp, Xu Chu and Cao Xing also led the Xuzhou infantry to the battlefield to meet with Deputy Director Tao. After a little negotiation, Deputy Director Tao chose to immediately approach the city of Wan County and asked the Wan County garrison Li Shu to open the city gate to surrender immediately. In this way, Li Shu, who had a ghost in his heart, was in a dilemma and wanted to surrender according to the agreement of the surrender letter, for fear that the Xuzhou army would find out its deceitful surrender and would not be able to save his life; he would break his promise and refuse to surrender. The aristocratic families in Wan County did not agree, and hesitated and hesitated.

No matter how hard the army is, it is necessary to make a choice. Considering that the Xuzhou army is already at the city, all the huge families in the Anhui County are all interested in the Xuzhou army. Li Shu, who has no strength to defend Wan County, hesitated for a while, finally gritted the bullet and fulfilled the agreement. On the morning of the next day, hesitated and led the defenders in the city to put down their weapons and surrender. Deputy Director Tao appointed his cousin Tao Ji to accept the surrender of Li Shu and treated Li Shu very well. Cao Xing led 5,000 infantry into the city to take over the city defense, and then rewarded the surrendered soldiers with gold and silk. On the same day, Li Shu reorganized the surrendered army. He was willing to continue to retain those who were willing to join the army, and those who were unwilling to join the army would reward them with farmers. He took the opportunity to disperse most of the 4,000 local village soldiers brought by Li Shu. Li Shu was panicked, but he did not dare to express his fear.

In the evening of that day, Tao Ji came forward to invite Li Shu and other surrendered generals to the Xuzhou Central Army camp for a banquet. Li Shu was not too worried when he saw that there were all the generals accompanying him, so he was invited to the banquet honestly. Tao Ji did not act like a show on the banquet. In addition to entertaining Li Shu and other surrendered generals in Wan County, he also comforted Li Shu and others on behalf of Deputy Director Tao, promising to add rewards. He also took out a thick reward of gold, silver, silk and satin on the spot. All the surrendered generals in Wan County were very happy. When Li Shu saw Tao Ji highly rewarding everyone but not him, he was inevitably a little suspicious. Fortunately, Tao Ji immediately smiled at Li Shu and said, "General Bo Tai must be very strange. Why did he reward the generals of Wan County for his brother, but he did not reward him alone? General Bo Tai wants to know the reason?"

"Shu dare not make random speculations." Li Shu replied with a very decent answer and said with a smile: "Shu led the scholars and people of Wan County to welcome the Xuzhou army, but because the Jingzhou army was cruel and unkind, he poisoned the people of Lujiang, and carried out the self-protection of thousands of living creatures in Wan County, and did not dare to seek rewards from Tao Envoys."

"General Botai is indeed modest. No wonder his brother always praised General Botai and looked at him with different eyes." Tao Ji, who had learned some of his acting skills in his cousin, applauded and laughed, and stood up and smiled: "I'm not to hide it from General Botai. In fact, the brother also has a heavy reward to the general, but this reward is too expensive and is not convenient to show it in public. General Botai, please come down. Ji takes you to the back account and give you a reward of your brother alone."

"Too expensive? Not convenient to show it in public?" Li Shusheng became curious and greedy. He quickly stood up with Tao Ji and joined hands with Tao Ji in the envious eyes of the generals of Wan County. Li Ming and Gao Chong and other Tao Ji generals left the generals of Wan County to drink and have fun.

In contrast to the drum and music, the noise of the front account was completely opposite. The back account of the separate account was surprisingly quiet. Although the lights were lit in the tent, there were only three people drinking and talking in the tent. One young man with a greasy head and a floury face sat high in the middle, and two strong men on both sides sat opposite each other. One was tall and fat and big waist, and the other was extremely fierce. Seeing Tao Ji leading Li Shu in, the greasy head and a pink face smiled politely at Li Shu first, showing a shiny fang, and then he said, "General Botai, we have finally met."

"General Tao Ji, this person is..." Li Shu asked Tao Ji in confusion.

"Introduce to General Boyang." Tao Ji stretched out his hand to the greasy and powdery face and said with a smile: "This is our governor of Xuzhou, General Tao Ying, the left, and the cousin and lord of the lower class."

"Are you the envoy Tao?" Li Shu was very surprised and hurried to Tao Ying to kneel down on one knee and said respectfully: "Li Shu, the surrendered general of Wan County, pay homage to the envoy Tao."

Tao Ying smiled gently at Li Shu again, but suddenly shouted: "Take it down!"

Before Tao Ying finished speaking, before Li Shu could react, the two strong men on the left and right of Tao Ying had already jumped up, one on the left and one on the right, each stretched out one hand to press Li Shu on his shoulders. Li Shu felt two huge forces like a scattered sea of ​​force, and was immediately pressed to kneel on both knees. Then the two strong men were picked up by both hands and lost their ability to resist. Li Shu was shocked and screamed: "Eunuch, what is the crime of Shu? Why did you take me?"

"What are you guilty?" Tao Yingqingqing's face showed a grim smile and said with a sneer: "Yuan Shu used Wan County as bait to make two tigers compete for food, and arranged for you to deliberately surrender, and induce our army and Jingzhou army to turn against each other in the city of Wan County. I also want to hide such a sub-scheming from my eyes?"

"I'm wronged! I'm not here..."

Li Shu shouted for justice, but before he could finish his words, Xu Chu's big hand next to him had already been covered in his mouth to prevent Li Shu's scream from alarming the generals of Wan County in front of him. Tao Yingze sneered again: "Injustice? Yuan Shu's husband and your wishful thinking, do you think I don't know? Yuan Shu's husband asked you to come forward to surrender for two purposes. One is to lure our army to fight against Jingzhou army, and the other is to let you take the opportunity to get involved in our army and get things done from it. And you, you do not dare to disobey Yuan Shu's orders, nor do you have the courage to fight against our army's force, and you are even more afraid of making things difficult for the clans and families in the Wan County town of our army to open the city gate to welcome our army into the city, causing our army to kill your family after entering the city. Then he bit the bullet and lead the army to surrender, wanting to save their lives first and then act according to the opportunity! You say it yourself, is it?!"

The sweat on Li Shu's forehead began to drip, but Li Shu was also a smart person. Seeing that Yuan Shu's arrangements and his scheming had been seen by Tao Ying, he knew that if he refused, it would be impossible to protect his captain. No matter how stupid Tao Ying was, he would definitely not leave him as a dangerous person. So after hesitation, Li Shu still chose to confess his guilt honestly and kowtowed to Tao Ying repeatedly: "I am aware of the truth. This is indeed the case, but the sin is also forced. The sin is a subordinate of Yuan Shu. He arranged for the sin to do such a great rebellious thing. Although he was unwilling to do it, he dared not to obey. Please give up the sin to the sake of the sin to be rewarded for the contribution of the city."

"For the sake of your honest confession, there is no problem of spareing your life." Tao Ying changed his relaxed smile and said with a smile: "As long as you honestly explain your accomplices, Yuan Shu, and the purpose of Yuan Shu, wanting you to sneak into our army."

"No, no, the sin will be honest." Li Shu kowtowed and replied: "Yuan Shu is the general who sneaked into the Xuzhou army first to deceive the envoy's trust in the sinful general, and then waited for his orders to act. As for the accomplices of the general, the general who was the general who was the general who was the general who was the general who was the general who was the general who was the general who was the general who was the general who was the general who was the general who was the general who was the general who was the general who was the general who was the general who was the general who was the general who was the general who was the general who was the general who was the general who was the general who was the general who was the general who was the general who was the general who was the general who was the general, and his name was..."

Kowtowed, Li Shu honestly explained the names and identities of the two messengers sent by Xiao Yuan Sangong. Tao Ying couldn't help but smile after hearing this and said, "It seems that Yuan Shu's confidence in you is not very strong. Even a few deputy officers are reluctant to make arrangements for you. I'm afraid the old man doesn't dare to expect you to succeed. Oh, by the way, what reward Yuan Shu promises to give you?"

"Yuan Shu promised that after the matter was completed, he would be General Yang Lie, and would be rewarded with a thousand taels of gold and silver, and be the prime minister of Lujiang." Li Shu replied.

"I believe you as General Yangwu, and you will be rewarded with two thousand taels of gold and silver and hundreds of pearls." Tao Ying said without blinking his eyes: "In addition, how about you be appointed as the prefect of Lujiang? General Li Shu, would you be willing to surrender to me sincerely?"

"Prefect Lujiang? Envoy, do you want to confer the title of the general as the general of Lujiang?" Li Shu opened his mouth in disbelief until Tao Ying smiled and nodded to confirm. Li Shu finally came to his senses and quickly kowtowed to Tao Ying again and said loyally: "The general is willing to surrender his lord sincerely, and is willing to surrender his lord sincerely, and goes through fire and water for the lord, and goes to the mountain and the oil pan to serve the work of dogs and horses."

"Very good." Tao Ying nodded with satisfaction and said with a smile: "But there is no need for you to go through fire and water. As long as you continue to pretend to be loyal to Yuan Shu for the time being, act as an insider for Yuan Shu, and maintain secret contact with Yuan Shu. How about it, do you understand? Li Taishou of Lujiang?"

"I understand!" Li Shu nodded very smartly.

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After addressing the hidden danger of Li Shu and successfully reorganizing the surrendered troops, Deputy Director Tao, who was worried about the war in Shucheng, wanted to lead the army back to Shu County immediately, but the scouts suddenly came to report that Liu Pan personally led 6,000 troops from Tongyang and had already met Huang She's team 30 miles away in Wan County. Tao Ying had to change his plan and sent Song Kai to the Jingzhou Army to negotiate with Liu Pan. He still expressed his willingness to spend half of Wan County's money and grain in exchange for friendly interaction with Jingzhou Army to avoid conflicts further - Fortunately, the distance is not far, and it is not wasteful much time.

Song Kai was sent out, and Cao Xing was responsible for the city defense. Wei Yan and Danyang soldiers were staring at the surrendered army. Tao Ji was also picking up the matter of connecting the gentry families in Wan County. Tao Ying also wanted Tao Ji to accumulate some experience in this area so that he could stand alone in the future. Therefore, our busy man, Deputy Director Tao, rarely has some free time to rest. However, some people always like to be humble. They want to rest when they work, and miss work when they are resting. Unfortunately, our Deputy Director Tao is such a person. He has been idle in the military camp for a whole morning and shouts bored, wanting to find something to pass the time.

"Since the lord is bored, then let's go to the city and take a walk." Xu Chu, the captain in charge of Tao Ying's safety, suggested, "I heard that Wan County is a big city in Lujiang, and the market is quite prosperous. After the lord came to Wan County, they lived in the military camp and never entered the city. It would be better to take this opportunity to go into the city and walk there, and it would be better to come to Wan County for a walk."

Deputy Director Tao, who was used to the skyscrapers, actually had little interest in the streets and markets of this era. However, considering that he would soon rule Lujiang, it was good to understand the local customs and folk customs, so Deputy Director Tao nodded after a moment of calculation and ordered: "Okay, go to the city for a walk, but don't wear military uniforms, change into casual clothes, and bring thirty guards to secretly protect them, don't disturb the people."

Xu Chu agreed and quickly arranged thirty best guards to change into casual clothes with him, dressed as ordinary people and followed Tao Ying into the city. Tao Ying also changed into a Confucian shirt, wore a slut to cover the short hair on his head, took a roll of bamboo slips to decorate the storefront, carried a long sword on his shoulder, dressed up as an unscrupulous literati who traveled around all day without doing his job, and liked to tease folk women. He led Xu Chu and others out of the side door and entered the city of Wan County with a swagger - the conscience of heaven and earth. Our Deputy Director Tao really just wanted to understand the customs and folk customs of Wan County, and there were no other evil and bad purposes.

What disappointed Deputy Director Tao was that because of the war and the possibility of continuing, the market in Wan County was very depressed, and most of the shops on both sides of the road were closed. In addition to Xuzhou soldiers patrolling, there were not even a few passers-by on the streets. It was so deserted that Deputy Director Tao, who was not very interested in shopping, yawned even more boring. In desperation, he had to patrol the city defense of Wan County and prepare for military preparations to prevent the breakdown of negotiations with the Jingzhou army.

Fortunately, it is probably because of the fact that Wan County is quite rich. All the previous Wan County garrisons have paid some money and grain in the Anhui County city defense, which has made the Anhui County city defense quite strong. The height and solidity of the city walls are higher than that of Shucheng, the capital city of Lujiang County. Deputy Director Tao nodded, and it was inevitable that he would have such an idea whether to move the Lujiang county to this Anhui County? Moreover, Wan County has the benefits of Anhui water, which can directly connect to the Yangtze River to facilitate the development of the naval army. However, considering that the Xuzhou naval army has just begun to be established, and the Anhui County is located in a remote and difficult to control, Deputy Director Tao temporarily gave up this idea.

From the east gate, he moved counterclockwise to the north of the city. Deputy Director Tao, who was increasingly bored, was planning to go out of the city and go back to the camp to sleep. However, a noise came from a street in the north of the city. Deputy Director Tao was worried that it was the Xuzhou soldiers who had a conflict with the people in the city while patrolling the city, so he walked into the street and led Xu Chu and others to the scene. When checking the situation, Deputy Director Tao was relieved. It turned out that the noise here was not caused by the soldiers in Xuzhou, but a group of people who looked like servants had a dispute with another group of servants in front of a house. The two groups of servants were a rich young man and a middle-aged rich man.

The content of the dispute between the rich man and the middle-aged and rich man seemed to be for marriage. The rich man's entourage had a wild goose, who looked like he wanted to accept a lottery and proposed marriage. The middle-aged and rich man led his subordinates to guard the door and refused to allow the rich man and his group to enter the door. The middle-aged and rich man kept saying nonsense such as unwilling to climb high, and seemed to refuse to agree to the marriage. The rich man with a greasy and freckle face entangled the middle-aged and rich man, constantly calling him uncle, and begged the middle-aged and rich man with a smile on his face to accept the lottery gift.

Such trivial matters should not have attracted Tao Ying's attention, but the words of the rich young master made Tao Ying extremely bored. The rich young master said this, "Uncle, my nephew is sincerely asking for marriage. No matter uncle, you can give the daughter to my nephew. My nephew only wants to marry one of your daughters, only one of your daughters."

"It's okay to marry that? There are still people who propose marriage in this world?"

Tao Ying was amused when she heard this. When she was about to go up to ask about the situation in detail, a wave of water suddenly flew out from behind the middle-aged rich man, pouring the rich young man with a greasy and powdery face all over his body. Then, a crisp and beautiful girl with a stingy voice sounded, "If you want to have a little face, get out of me immediately! If you want me to marry you, dream! If you don't get out, I will have to wash my feet and serve you!"

"Miss Wan'er, we finally meet again." The rich young man was not angry because he was soaked in the whispering autumn wind. He was as slutty as Deputy Director Tao, and said with a smile on his face, "Miss Wan'er, don't be so heartless, I have no worthy of you? We are a matchmaker, and we are born with a couple... Ah! Beautiful girl!"

Speaking of this, the rich young man was excited as if he had chicken blood injected, and shouted loudly: "Miss Jing'er, you are here just in time. I have good news to tell you that my father is about to be promoted! The Tao Envoy of Xuzhou has agreed. Just wait for the Xuzhou army to take Lujiang. My father is the prefect of Lujiang. The whole Lujiang is my father's final word."

"Lujiang Prefect?!" Tao Ying was stunned at first, and then immediately woke up - this rich young man is probably Li Guan, the only son of Li Shu! Then Deputy Director Tao couldn't help but feel aroused blood pressure, cursing in his heart, "Good your mother's Li Shu, I secretly seal you as the Lujiang Prefect, I plan to let you put a trap on Yuan Shu. How dare you expose this? And let your idiot son show off everywhere? If Yuan Shu's spy heard it and stabbed it to Yuan Shu, I might have to suffer a big loss!"

Tao Ying was still behind, and the rich young man revealed Xuzhou military aircraft in public, but he even threatened the middle-aged and rich man with a smile: "Uncle, have you heard what he said just now? Tao Envoy appreciated my father very much. Now there are Tao Envoy's army everywhere in Wan County. If my father tells you about collusion with Yuan Shu thieves or Jingzhou thieves..., hehe."

"Mr. Li, you... don't talk nonsense." The middle-aged rich man obviously had a weak temper. When he was frightened by Mr. Li, he looked pale and quickly decided: "Mr. Li, please be careful. I am just a poor man, and I have no official position. How could I collude with the thief army?"

"This may be possible." Mr. Li smiled like Deputy Director Tao when he ordered the demolition and said, "The last time the Jingzhou thief army attacked Wan County, it was heard that there were Jingzhou spies in Wan County who tried to open the city gate to welcome the Jingzhou thief army into the city. My father has been investigating this matter and found that this matter seemed to be related to some people in your family, uncle..."

"Huh." Another wind sounded, but this time it was no longer water huā—it was simply a wooden basin, and it was just right to hit Mr. Li's hideous smile. Then the fierce girl's voice sounded again, "Li Guan! You shameless dog thing, want to frame and frame my family, you..."

The stingy girl couldn't curse her anymore because Mr. Li had already covered her little face and howled like a pig. Blood was still flowing from the fingers of his hands that covered her little face. The twenty-suffered followers brought by Mr. Li were so scared that the middle-aged and rich man was so fat that his face was pale. He quickly asked Mr. Li repeatedly: "Mr. Li, Mr. Li, how are you? Didn't you hit there?"

"Didn't hit it there?" Mr. Li howled like a wounded beast. When he let go of his hand, not only was his hands full of blood, but his lower half of his face was covered with blood. He looked very terrifying and scary, and howled wildly: "My nose is broken, my nose is broken! The surname Qiao, we have nothing to do today!"

"Young master, your son, it's a rude girl. Please forgive me. Please forgive me." The middle-aged rich man was so anxious that he was sweating profusely, and he repeatedly ordered: "Hurry, send someone to invite a doctor."

"It's not as simple as hiring a doctor!" Mr. Li, whose nose was bleeding, took the opportunity to yell: "Come on, take this person named Qiao for me, send him to General Cao, and tie up his two daughters!"

"No!" The entourage brought by Mr. Li agreed suddenly, and he held the middle-aged and rich man down with excitement, and then rushed into the door even more excitedly. Five or six servants in the middle-aged and rich man's house stopped him, and they were suddenly fisted and kicked. Several servants brought by Mr. Li simply pulled out their waist knives. The situation suddenly expanded, and the girl's screams suddenly sounded inside the door.

Seeing this, Deputy Director Tao really couldn't bear to see it anymore. He patted Xu Chu, who was also full of anger, pointed at Mr. Li and ordered: "Go, knock off his teeth and drive him away, but don't expose his identity or take their lives. I want to see if he, Li Shu, is qualified to be the prefect of Lujiang."

Xu Chu didn't say anything, nodded vigorously, then stepped forward, rushed to the blood-faced Young Master Li, without saying a word, and punched Mr. Li's mouth hard. The dull flesh and blood suddenly flew backwards in the air, and blood and a few slightly yellow teeth were also sprayed out of the unlucky Mr. Li's mouth...
Chapter completed!